Today is Halloween. And, it’s also Saturday. A rare cosmic coincidence. And to round out the trifecta, it’s also the end of Daylight Saving Time. So this means everyone is going to stay up extra late because there is no school or work tomorrow and because we gain an extra hour of sleep. In our...

I went to visit my 93 year-old grandmother last weekend. Gaggy, as my brother named her 45 years ago, lives in Fayetteville, NC, where my mom was born and raised. I hadn’t seen her in a long time. Over a year. My mom and my brother went also, the three of us leaving behind two...

Inertia – noun 1. inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness. I am in a state of writing inertia. This happens to me from time to time. I have so much to say and so much to write about that I can’t write anything. I don’t know where to...

It’s been a decade since I moved in to my house. I was 33, 8 months pregnant with my second child and still married to my first husband. Now, I’m 43, have been divorced and re-married, am a mother of two and stepmother of one. Along with just getting older, that’s a lot of change....

What’s a dewlap?

A dewlap is the loose skin that hangs under the neck of an animal. Like on a lizard. Or an old(er) person. You know exactly what I’m talking about. And now you know the word for it. An everyday thing that you can’t define. Until someone defines it for you. Life is full of things like this. And so is my blog.